On 10/24/2013 11:39 PM, Schmitz Thomas A. wrote:
On 24 Oct 2013, at 16:17, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote:
Hm. The problem is that we get some oscillation (with a few year cycle) between
the 'demand' for os fonts support vs tree only (as far as remember os font
support was mostly requested by osx users). Anyhow, we can make it an option,
but then the question is: what is the default (and who is going to defend that
choice to distributers and users).
Hans
Yes, I’m aware that any default will make some users unhappy. I would prefer to
have osfontdir unset by default because there’s a real speed penalty in having
it set so I would agree with Alan on that one. (It would also abolish the
inconsistency between platforms.) But for me the real question is: what do I
have to do to have osfontdir unset as things are now? I tried some things, none
worked. (see my earlier mail).
I don't understand the speed issue. We're talking about relatively few
fonts only and context will not scan them unless there is a change.
After a remake a rescan takes < 9 sec on my laptop and < 6 sec once the
directories have been cached (windows 8 / 64 bit / i7 / ssd).
Only an initial full scan takes a while (deleted cache), but that's
mostly because I have a pretty large font collection in my texmf-fonts
tree.
Hans
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